Hat and coat rack.



No. 855,732. PATENTED JUNEA, 1907.

R. ROSE & P. BRADY.

HAT AND GOAT RACK. APPLIOATION rum) JUNE 20, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

RODERICK ROSE, OF YONKERS, AND PHILIP BRADY, OF NORTH TARRYTOWN, NEWYORK.

HAT AND COAT RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 4, 1907.

Application filed June 20,1906. Serial No. 322,617.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, RoDERicK ROSE and PHILIP BRADY, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Yonkers and North Tarrytown, respectively, inthe county of l/Vestchester and State of New York, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Hat and Coat Racks, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to hat and coat racks and embodies in itsorganization a base piece carrying hat and coat receiving members,together with a movable guard member adapted to holding the garments onthe rack, and means for locking the guard in retaining position.

The invention has for its objects to provide a comparatively simple,inexpensive device of this character, wherein the guard serves foreffectually holding the garments on the rack, one in which the guardwill be automatically locked in retaining position, and one wherein theguard will, when unlocked, spring automatically to releasing positionfor permitting ready removal of the garments.

With these and other objects in view, the invention comprises the novelfeatures of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafterdescribed.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rackembodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3is a detail view of the toothed end of the locking bar.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a base member or platepreferably of elongated form, as shown, and having between its ends anextended portion or enlargement 2, within the area of which there isfixed to the base a hat receiving member or hook 3, there being disposedat the lower end of the base 1. and for their active engaging ends toproject below the same, a pair of cooperating relatively movable garmentgripping members or jaws 4, 5, of which the former is fixed to the baseand the latter is pivoted as at 6 to the member 4 and provided with anupwardly extending, outwardly curved bearing arm or shank 7 adapted tobe acted upon for moving the member 5 to clamping position, whilecountersunk into the base at a point above and suitably remote from itslower end is a lock 8 containing a suitable locking mechanism and havinga rotary key receiving barrel 9 and a hasp receiving openlng 10.

Arranged to overlie the base plate 1 is a' retaining member or guard 11preferably of substantially elliptical form, as shown, and composed ofwire bent into shape to form integrally with the upper end of the guard,which is provided at its lower end with an outwardly and downwardlycurved bearing portion or arm 12, two pairs of spring coils 13terminating in and joined by a substan tially U-shaped portion or head14, the side and end bars of which are engaged by fastening members orstaples 15 for attaching the guard to the base, while carried by andpreferably formed integral with the bearing portion 12 is an inwardlyprojecting lock engaging bar or hasp 16 provided at its inner end with aseries of engaging portions or teeth 17 adapted for engagement by thelocking mechanism withln the casing 8, at a point opposite to whichthere is fixed on the base an umbrella receiving loop or bail 18. Inpractice, the guard member 11 and movable garment engaging clamp 5normally stand in the positions indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1 andin use a hat is placed upon the hook 3 and the coat or other garmentarranged between the lower active ortions of the clam ing members, afterwhich the lower end 0' the guard member is swung inward toward the baseagainst the action of the springs 13 until the hasp 16 enters opening 10and is engaged by the locking mechanism within the casing 8. When theguard moves inward the crown of the hat is disposed between theoppositely curved arms thereof, thus to be retained on the hook 3 whilethe bearing portion 12 acts upon the bearing portion 7 of the movableclamping member for carrying the latter to clamping position andmaintaining the clamping members in cooperative clamping engagementwith. the garment until the guard is again released by operating the keybarrel 9 with a suitable key. When the barrel is moved for unlocking thedevice, the guard 11 will swing automatically under the action ofsprings 13, thus to release the garment held by the clamps 4L and 5 andpermit ready removal of the hat from the hook 3.

In suspending an umbrella from the device, the handle of the umbrella ispassed through the loop 18 and held against removal therefrom by meansof the locking bar or hasp 16 which engages in rear of the handle, aswill be readily understood.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is:

1. In a device of the class described, a base, a hat receiving membercarried there by, a movable guard member adapted to overlie the hat forretaining the same on the member, a pair of relatively movable garmentengaging devices attached to the base,

' means on the guard member for holding the garment engaging members inengaging position, and means for locking the guard against movement.

2. In a device of the class described, a base, a hat supporting memberfixed on the base, a movable guard member adapted for retaining the hatin position on the supporting member, said guard member being providedwith a bearing portion, a pair ofcooperating relatively movable clampingmembers carried by the base and adapted for engagement with a garment,one of said members having a bearing portion adapted to be acted upon bythe bearing portion of the guard member to hold the clamps in engagingposition, and means for locking the guard member against movement.

3. In a device of the class described, a base, a hat receiving hookfixed on the base, a movable guard member carried by the base andadapted to maintain the hat in position on the hook, said guard memberbeing provided with a projecting bearing portion, a pair of relativelymovable garment clamping members attached to the base, one of saidmembers being provided with a projecting bearing portion adapted to beacted upon by the bearing portion of the guard member to move themembers to clamping position, and means for locking the guard againstmovement in retaining position.

In testimony whereof, we afhx our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

RODERICK ROSE. PHILIP BRADY.

WVitnesses ARTHUR ROWLAND, MICHAEL GLEESON.

